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Success… Online Marketing… Entrepreneurs Require Time Management
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Time Management Is The Foundation Of Long Term Success. It Is Basically About Being Focused.
The Pareto Principle also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However, 80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although the ratio ‘80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.
Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management and should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further, to include the finer points of each skill adding the extra effort that gets the results you desire.
But there are more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.
Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration, processed and incorporated into your style.
Having a balanced lifestyle should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.
Time management is about getting results, not about being busy!
The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are…
1. Physical
2. Intellectual
3. Social
4. Career
5. Emotional
6. Spiritual
2 Areas Of The Physical Aspect
The physical aspect involves…
1. Having a healthy body
2. Less stress and fatigue
2 Aspects Of The Intellectual
The intellectual aspect involves..
1. Learning
2. Mental growth activities like personal development
2 Social Aspects
The social aspect involves…
1. Developing personal or intimate relations
2. Being an active contributor to society
2 Career Aspects
Career aspect involves…
1. School
2. Work
2 Emotional Aspects
The emotional aspect involves…
1. Developing appropriate feelings and desires
2. Manifesting those feelings and desires
The Spiritual Aspects
The spiritual aspect… involves a personal quest for meaning.
Thoroughly planning and having a to do list for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is not being giving enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole you. If you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.
Personal time management should not be a daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small.
A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.
One of them is to review your goals whether it be immediate or long-term goals often.
- Keep a list that is always accessible to you.
- Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style.
- Each and everyone of us has a peek time and a time when we slow down, these are our natural cycles. We should be able to tell when to do the difficult tasks when we are the sharpest.
- Learning to say “No”. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends.
- Pat yourself at the back or just reward yourself in any manner for an effective time management result.
- Try and get the cooperation from people around you who are actually benefiting from your efforts of time management.
- Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately.
- Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.
- Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.
These are the few steps you initially take in becoming a well rounded individual.
Personal time management is the art and science of building a better life.
From the moment you integrate into your life these time management skills, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal and professional growth. It also creates more open doors of opportunity ultimately granting you the success that you have worked so hard to get.
Study and implement these principles and you will travel the road of success… straight to your dreams!
You Are Empowered To Prosper!
Mia
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